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Submissions
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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or PDF document file format.
- We fight plagiarism: please understand that your article will be checked with available tools for discovering plagiarism.
- The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end of the manuscript.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Please read this advice and download associated files. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has recently published in all ICMJE journals an editorial introducing a new “Disclosure Form for Potential Conflict of Interest”, with the aim to establish uniform reporting system, which can go over the existing differences in current formats or editors’ requests. We at PAGEPress Publications welcome this initiative as a possible uniforming, standardizing way to have this important disclosure authorizing the publications of manuscripts. We are therefore asking you to duly fill in the “Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests in ICMJE Journals” and upload it on the Web site of the PAGEPress journal your work is involved with or email it back to us, in mind to allow PAGEPress to peer-reviewing your work. The document is in Adobe format, it includes instructions to help authors provide the requested information and the completion procedure is user-friendly. Kindly note that the format have to be completed and signed by each author of the work. We remain waiting for the completed form to proceed with publication. Please be informed that if this Disclosure Form is missing, we will not be able to publish your work.
- Authors are kindly required to suggest at least two potential reviewers (name, affiliation and e-mail) for their manuscript in the "Comments to the Editor" field (Step 1. Submission Process).
Original Articles
Original Articles (4000 words max, abstract 180 words max, 30 references max) This type of publication should in general be divided into an abstract, introduction, design and methods, results, discussion and references. A maximum of 20 authors is permitted, and additional authors should be listed in an ad hoc appendix.Technical Reports
Technical Reports (1000 words max, no abstract) Such publications are short methodological reports presenting relevant topics in malaria research. They report on experiences with new technologies, such as drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, relevant to malaria. New analytical techniques to analyze data, such as mathematical or non-mathematical models or new and original ways to show results are welcome. Authors are asked to take an objective and critical view, and they should include a box that lists up advantages and disadvantages of the new technology. If the technique is a new diagnostic tool, the authors are asked for a discussion on the sensitivity and specificity of the new tool.Reviews
Reviews (3500 words max, minimum 40 references, 5 figures and tables max) Following a short introduction, putting the area into context and defining the aim, reviews will concentrate on the most recent developments in the field. The method section of the review should comprise a description of how the studies have been selected for inclusion in the review. The discussion will address the relevance of the findings for policy makers at national and international level. A review should clearly describe the search strategy followed (keywords, inclusion, exclusion criteria, search engines,...) and the Results section needs to explain how the final set of articles was obtained. We encourage authors to follow the guidelines at: http://www.prisma-statement.org/Views and Comments
Views and Comments (1500 words max, minimum 15 references) They are opinion pieces grounded in evidence. Authors are encouraged to cite up to 15 references in support of their key assertions, and to use a logical structure for their piece.Policy Platform Articles
Policy Platform Articles (1500 words max, minimum 25 references) They provide a platform to discuss specific policies that could improve the lives of those at risk of, or affected by, Malaria. New and specific policy proposals that arise from high-level national or international meetings will be considered for this section, but we will not consider traditional "meeting reports".Country Reports
Country Reports (1500 words max) This publication is a special type of Review paper, which describes the current situation in a country focusing on e.g. surveillance systems, control methods. The method section of the review should comprise a description of how the studies have been selected for inclusion in the paper. The discussion will address the relevance of the findings for policy makers at national and international level.Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor (800 words max) are invited, short essays that express the author’s viewpoint, may respond to published manuscripts in our journal or deliver information or news regarding an issue related to the Journal scope. If the letter is in relation to a published manuscript, the authors of the original manuscript will be given the opportunity to provide a rebuttal. Authors of Letters to the Editor should provide a short title for their letter.Book Reviews
Book Reviews on recent titles in the area of malaria research are welcomed. They should be short critical analysis and evaluation of the quality, meaning, and significance of a book which addressed at least one of main topics of the Journal. The contents of this rubric are referenced in the table of contents and can therefore be cited.Copyright Notice
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